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I woke up early today and walked the streets of Colonia.  I snapped some great photos of the town.  I want to start taking photos of people, but I would have to do it discretely.  Sometimes people say so much about an area just do to the facial expressions and emotion.  I stopped at a hostel on the main street and had a pastry and some coffee.   I went back to the hotel and finished packing at about 8:30.  I walked back into town and had breakie with the group (for those of you that don't know, i call breakfast, 'breakie") at about 9:30 and then at 11:30 Noah Jake and I walked to an internet cafe.  They wanted to check emails, sports scores and update people on their whereabouts.  I had done all that on the free wifi at the hotel so i was good. At noon, I decided to walk back to the hotel.  We grabbed our packs and jumped into taxis and arrived at the bus station.  We had some time to kill so we kicked the ball around for a bit.  W...

We had to wake up very early this morning.  I was up and in the shower by 6:15  We are making our way to Colonia, Uruguay.  It is 3 hours by slow ferry and about 1 hour and 10 minutes by fast ferry, however, we are on the slow ferry. The Buquebus was our form of transportation. It is a very wide commuter boat with 3 or 4 levels.  They have a first class as well on the lowest level with really plush seats and better amenities.  You feel like you are on a mini cruise ship.  On the main floor, where you board, there is a small shopping space, much like that of a duty free airport shop.  There was a cafe and lots of open space, games, pinball machines, air hockey and a nice atrium with sunlight shining through. On the second level there are tons of seats that recline so that people can sleep, as most of them did for the entire trip.  There was also a cafeteria at the front of the ship to purchase snacks and drinks.  There were some cool bar stool...